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John Marin (1870-1953)
Lot 11The Michael Scharf Family Collection

John Marin (1870-1953)

Small Point, Maine

Fermé22 May 2019

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USD 125,000

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John Marin (1870-1953)
Small Point, Maine
signed and dated 'Marin 31' (lower right)
watercolor on paper with original painted mat and applied metallic border
sight, 18 ½ in. 24 in. (47 x 61 cm.); overall, 22 ½ x 28 in. (57.2 x 71.1 cm.)
Executed in 1931.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York, acquired from the above, 1969.
Private collection, Paris, France, by 1973.
Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1997, lot 131, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Note du spécialiste

The present work retains its original applied and painted border. As Charles Pietraszewski and Christine Conniff-O'Shea write, "Marin's frames and mounts are highly prized, possessing an almost cultlike status." Discussing a similar framing device on Movement No. 23--The Sea and Pertaining Thereto (1927, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois), they describe, "Here the artist eschewed the gilded mount and applied a very thin raised silver strip around the edge of the watercolor, essentially creating another variation on his frame-within-a frame approach. In a letter to Stieglitz, he discussed this framing device: '[George] Of is at work on what I call my secondary line of defense or inner frames or strips...Figuring things out to the 32 of an inch is no joke but I want them to look right as I can make them--which of course takes time.'" ("Part of the Picture: The Power of the Frame in John Marin's Watercolors," John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 2010, pp. 59, 71)